Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 299 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9789004218499
Series Statement:
African social studies series v. 27
Content:
Preliminary Material -- Introduction Traditional Authorities and Multi-Party Elections in Ethiopia /Kjetil Tronvoll and Tobias Hagmann -- Chapter 1 Electoral Politics in the Nuer Cultural Context /Dereje Feyissa -- Chapter 2 Fishing for Votes in the Somali Region: Clan Elders, Bureaucrats and Party Politics in the 2005 Elections /Tobias Hagmann -- Chapter 3 Family Connections: Inherited Status and Parliamentary Elections in Dawro, Southern Ethiopia /Data Dea Barata -- Chapter 4 A Revival of Tradition? The Power of Clans and Social Strata in the Wolayta Elections /Lovise Aalen -- Chapter 5 Cynicism and Hope: Urban Youth and Relations of Power During the 2005 Ethiopian Elections /Daniel Mains -- Chapter 6 Islam and Politics: The EPRDF, the 2005 Elections and Muslim Institutions in Bale /Terje Østebø -- Chapter 7 ‘We Say they are Neft enya; They Say we are OLF’: A Post-Election Assessment of Ethnicity, Politics and Age-Sets in Oromiya /Charles Schaefer -- Chapter 8 Customary Institutions in Contemporary Politics in Borana Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia /Marco Bassi -- Chapter 9 The 2005 Elections in Maale: A Reassertion of Traditional Authority or the Extension of a Nascent Public Sphere? /Donald L. Donham -- Epilogue The ‘New’ Ethiopia: Changing Discourses of Democracy /Kjetil Tronvoll -- Index.
Content:
This book offers a comparative ethnography of the contested powers that shape democratization in Ethiopia. Although multi-party elections have become the norm in Africa, relatively little is known about the significance of non-state actors such as traditional authorities in electioneering. Focusing on Ethiopia’s competitive 2005 elections, this book analyzes how customary leaders, political parties and state officials confronted and complemented each other during election time. Case studies reveal the contemporaneousness of traditional authorities in modern politics, but also how multi-party competition reproduces traditional relations of domination among ethnic groups. The book documents the importance of customary authority in selecting party candidates and providing legitimacy to political parties, but also their limitations in a country dominated by a semi-authoritarian party-state
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004218437
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Contested Power in Ethiopia: Traditional Authorities and Multi-Party Elections Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2012 ISBN 9789004218437
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004218499
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